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package io.hawt.config;

import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * A facade above the URLStreamHandler interface so we can use URL handlers with different kinds of class loaders
 * and registration rather than relying on the global classpath like the java.net.URL class
 */
public interface URLHandler {
    /**
     * Returns the stream  to the given URL
     */
    InputStream openStream(String url);
}
